Even if Lin Zhe plans to adjust the cabinet, this adjustment must be low-key in the early stage, and Lin Zhe also needs to make some preliminary arrangements, including considering how to adjust.

But this kind of consideration and low profile can't last long, after all, things always have to be done.

On November 29, Lin Zhe summoned the president of the Imperial University, Le Jiashan.

This incident did not cause much turmoil, because Lin Zhe usually cares more about education affairs, and several comprehensive government-run universities in China are very important, and the authority of each president is not inferior to those of the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially the president of the Imperial University.

Often, these principals are not traditional educators, but serious officials, and the actual head of the academic affairs of each university is in charge of teaching and learning.

The same is true of Le Jashan, who served in the Ministry of Education in his early years, but was appointed president of the Imperial University four years ago, albeit at an older age.

After summoning Le Jiashan, Lin Zhe summoned a number of important ministers, and they were all local ministers, such as Li Nanquan, the mayor of Shanghai, and Wu Xi, the governor of Guangdong Province.

These two people are not simple, contemporary Shanghai and Guangdong Province, but the empire's largest and second largest economic province, needless to say, Shanghai, although it is just a city, but this city is a megacity.

A few years ago, Shanghai was already annexed to Songjiang Prefecture, and later with the revocation of Taicang Prefecture, several counties to which it belonged were assigned to Suzhou Prefecture and Shanghai Municipality, so Shanghai annexed Jiading County again, and its jurisdiction was one more county than Songjiang Prefecture in the past.

Its economic aggregate is even more difficult for other prefectures, counties, and even provinces to match, and the total economic aggregate of Shanghai alone is more than that of Jiangsu, which no longer governs Shanghai and Nanjing, two cabinet municipalities directly under the central government. It is also larger than Guangdong and Zhili.

Shanghai is so important, so that the city's officials are concentrated in the best officials of the empire, and their futures are generally better, the previous mayors of Shanghai, except for Qi Xuanyun, a relative with a special identity, have basically entered the cabinet now.

And the governor of Guangdong Province is not simple. Guangdong is the second largest economic region of the empire, relying on international trade, although Guangdong lacks various resources and cannot prepare heavy industry, but it is still dominated by the development of light industry, and it is stunned to suppress the important industrial province of Zhili, a major industrial province in the north.

These people went back to Nanjing to meet Lin Zhe, but it was not a regular return to Beijing to report on their work, but a special summons, and what was surprising was that they had met Lin Zhehou. Didn't return as soon as possible.

Just when those officials were confused, Lin Zhe directly issued a series of holy decrees, announcing the appointment of Le Jiashan, the former president of the Imperial University, as the Minister of Imperial Education, the former mayor of Shanghai as the Minister of Industry and Commerce, and the governor of Guangdong Province as the Minister of Finance.

Jiang Daoquan, former minister of education, was promoted to associate minister of the cabinet, and Guo Longyun, former associate minister of the cabinet, is no longer concurrently acting as minister of industry and commerce.

The above-mentioned series of arrangements is undoubtedly a complete shock to the imperial political arena, in addition to Xue Huan, the most powerful Guo Longyun and Jiang Daoquan in the empire, one was transferred out of the Ministry of Education. Although he was promoted to associate minister, for Jiang Daoquan. Whether it's a gain or a loss is a matter worth considering.

And the reason why Guo Longyun can have huge power, one of the key points is that he is also the minister of industry and commerce, and now that he has been deprived of this part-time job, he has become an ordinary assistant minister like Jiang Daoquan.

And this is not enough, every few days, people still wonder what will happen to Qi Xuanhao, the former minister of finance, who was dismissed.

Lin Zhe merged the 'Economic Research Department' of the former Ministry of Finance, the 'Industrial and Commercial Reform Department' of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the 'Economic Planning Office' directly under the Cabinet. A new 'Economic Reform Office' was established.

This is a power agency with full responsibility for almost all reform matters such as the economic reform of the empire, and if it is described as the political system of the later nineties, it is generally similar to the reform committee, and its main function is to study, coordinate, and guide the affairs related to economic development.

If this explanation is not clear enough, then a simple understanding of one or the other is sufficient. That is, this economic reform office has the power to review and approve large-scale national projects.

And that's just one of the permissions they have.

When the officials studied this institution, their eyes immediately widened, and the authority of this economic reform office even exceeded that of the Economic Development Committee of the palace affairs department.

Such a weighted body even exceeds ordinary ministries, and who will be the head of such a weighted body?

Soon Lin Zhe gave the answer, that is, Qi Xuanhao, the former Minister of Finance, who has always won Lin Zhe's trust.

Qi Xuanhao, the former Minister of Finance, was directly appointed to 'supervise economic reform matters', and was rewarded with the title of Associate Minister and the title of Earl for one year.

The titles of associate ministers, earls, and one-year seals were enough to make other people's jaws drop, but what really stunned people was his dispatch.

He was not directly appointed to the post of head of the Economic Reform Office, but was asked to 'oversee economic reforms' in the name of the Holy Decree.

Whenever there is a superintendent in front of him, and there is a matter in the back, everyone in the world has a title, that is, the minister, if it is a popular name, it is the 'minister of economy'.

This kind of minister is different from the ministers of the cabinet ministries, the former is a kind of mission, holding the sword of Shang Fang, and can directly exercise the authority given by the emperor within the scope of authority, while the latter is just a job title, not a chincha.

In the more than ten years of the history of the empire, in addition to those diplomats stationed abroad in the diplomatic department, there have been three such titles in domestic history.

They are the Minister of the Navy, the Minister of the Western Expedition, well, and the Minister of Economy, who has been canceled for many years.

Its Minister of the Navy is Lin Zhe, considering that the power of the army in the military is too large and the navy is too weak, in order to support the independence of the navy and prevent the navy from becoming an army and naval corps, the minister of the navy was determined very early. This Lord of the Admiralty is technically different from the Admiralty General, but is usually held by the same person.

The Minister of the Western Expedition, at the beginning, was facing Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, etc., and with the unification of the country, Lin Zhe did not revoke this title, but used it in the direction of Xinjiang and Kokand.

Because Xinjiang and Kokand were too far away from the empire, and were in the middle of Russia, Britain and local powers, many things needed to be decided by local military and political dignitaries, so there was a special minister of the Western Expedition in this place.

However, this minister of the Western Expedition is not the same as before, served by military generals, but by civilian officials, usually senior civilian officials from the cabinet, otherwise, with the desire of military generals for military merit, and Lin Zhe gave them full powers, this would not be able to fight every day.

As for the Minister of Economy, it was Guo Longyun's exclusive title in the early years, and later Guo Longyun's entry into the cabinet was cancelled, but now Lin Zhe has re-established the position of Minister of Economy, and his authority is higher than that of Guo Longyun's era.

What is the signal?

The first signal is that Lin Zhe still maintains a high degree of concern about economic development, and the second signal is that Lin Zhe wants to support the fourth party in the cabinet.

In other words, it can also be that Guo Longyun and Jiang Daoquan have already made Lin Zhe dissatisfied. (To be continued.) )